Plato Poems

PlatoPlato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC),
was a Classical Greek philosopher. Together with his teacher, Socrates, and
his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of
Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical
dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher
learning in the western world. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and
was much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust
death.
Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his
Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are
ascribed to him are considered spurious. Interestingly, although there is
little question that Plato lectured at the Academy that he founded, the
pedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. The
dialogues have since Plato's time been used to teach a range of subjects, mostly
including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about
which he wrote.